365 (+1) days of being jealous. What better way to show a year of posts from this site than through a clever bit of scripting that creates a cloud of words from provided text (in this case, from many of the posts seen here). Wordle creates beautiful word clouds. What does your cloud say?
Junk mail sucks. Why? Because it looks like junk and it is poorly managed. You can avoid having your email marketing campaign go the way of processed mystery meat by using better, smarter tools and MailChimp is ready to create, deliver and manage everything. So easy, a monkey could do it.
The internet is a repository for awesome imagery, but who wants to download all their favorites and try to sift through them later? With ffffound.com, you can bookmark these images and collect them to your hearts content and view them whenever you like (provided the original link lives on forever). I spy with my little eye…
Online photo albums can hold some of the most fantastic moments frozen in time for all to see. However, the display of those photos can be so cumbersome in it’s presentation, let alone the management of the album, that the images, themselves, lose much of their luster. Todd Dominey’s incredibly helpful bit of software for Flash and Lightroom makes creating and managing photo albums a virtual snap. Presentation is fantastically customizable and all this for a mere $25 (for the Flash version). Your vacation slideshow never looked so good.
Like most people, you probably have a library of your favorite tunes all categorized in a very similar genre. Perhaps electronic/techno is your preferred flavor, or something quite the opposite, like country. Regardless, with the Music Genome Project’s internet radio station, Pandora, you can discover new artists/music based purely on what you already like. Add more branches to your tree.
Like many of the technorati out there, you likely belong to a few hundred social networks. Obviously, you function fairly well on only a handful of the most popular of them. Well, if you’d like to combine your social stream of friend activity into one handy toolbar in your browser, Minggl is definitely for you. No wall daisies here.
We all have feelings and we would very much like for others to know how we feel. What does the global atmosphere of feelings look like, however? How does the world feel? This exploratory web-based experiment from Jonathan Harris and Sep Kamver attempts to show us. Apparently, we feel fine.
Thousands of individual people were tasked with reproducing 1 of 10,000 different images using a custom drawing tool. None knew of what their illustration would ultimately contribute. All were paid one cent for the item reproduced for a total of $100 spent overall. The final product is a video of all 10,000 pieces being drawn simultaneously to create a 100 dollar bill. Just a tiny slice of an incredible pie.
Here’s another interesting idea spawned from the popular “What are you doing now” chat called twitter. You can submit a picture (or idea) and this clever fellow will convert it into a composite of avatars from twitter’s public timeline (using AndreaMosaic). Your tweet should be in pictures.
There are countless ways to deliver your message to the world, be it via blog, photos or video. Unfortunately, you generally have to have access to a computer and serve your media to the masses while logged into the service you’re sharing on. Technology, once again, doesn’t disappoint and with Utterz you can accomplishe this easily through the use of your mobile device. Utterly fantastic.
